Barcelona to Valencia takes approximately three hours. Book tickets and find information through Spanish Rail (020 7725 7063, ), which also sells the Golden Card (?5) that entitles the over-60s to a 40 per cent discount.

One of the company's wind farm project that is under development is scheduled to have an initial capacity of 200 megawatts, which represents one fifth of the production capacity of a nuclear power plant.

"Im Alfred," the man said, jumping to the track.

Ahead are the two main instruments, speedometer on the left and the revcounter (redlined at 5,000rpm) on the right. Above sits a bank of much smaller gauges: ammeter, oil pressure and fuel level. Apart from the ignition switch and single indicator stalk on the column, that's about it.

"Both developing and developed countries need to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. As they look for policy responses to the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, phasing out subsidies is an obvious way to help governments meet their economic, environmental and social goals," OECD Secretary-General Gurria said.